📈 Human Progress
⚛️ Particle defied the standard model – new physics may be on the horizon
A muon is a particle with a spin and a negative electric charge. When the muon is affected by a magnetic field, it “wobbles” a certain amount. Something that is called its g-factor. In a recent experiment at Fermilab in Illinois, the researcher’s...
🐠 Abandoned oil rigs are turned into artificial reefs
The urgency of saving the coral reefs is something everybody’s heard of. Two marine scientists, Emily Hazelwood and Amber Sparks believe abandoned oil rigs to be a solution to the acute problem. Together they have created the company Blue Latitudes and run the...
⛑ Smart bandages can detect covid
Patients with difficult-to-heal wounds often have to go to hospitals or health centers to have their bandages checked to make sure that the wounds are healing properly.But that may be about to change. Researchers from the University of Glasgow in Scotland have...
🛢 Drastic reduction in oil spills
Oil spills usually occur in two different ways. Either it is an oil source, or oil platform, that is leaking or it is a ship with oil in the tanks that for some reason leaks or sinks.It also happens that ships intentionally empty their tanks after they have been...
